US 7,558,584 B2
Location reporting method and related mobile communication terminal
Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Kanagawa (Japan); Masaaki Maeda, Tokyo (Japan); Koichi Takahara, Tokyo (Japan); Masahiro Kaiwa, Funabashi (Japan); Yoichi Tanibayashi, Fujisawa (Japan); Kaoru Nakajima, Yokohama (Japan); Junko Matsuo, Koganei (Japan); Kazunori Kosuge, Yokohama (Japan); and Katsutoshi Murata, Kunitachi (Japan)
Assigned to NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo (Japan)
Appl. No. 9/980,434
PCT Filed Mar. 30, 2001, PCT No. PCT/JP01/02804
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Nov. 28, 2001,
PCT Pub. No. WO01/74102, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 04, 2001.
Claims priority of application No. 2000-099926 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2002/0138650 A1, Sep. 26, 2002
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 24/00 (2009.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—456.5  [455/456.1; 455/456.3; 455/456.6; 455/466; 455/457; 709/203; 709/245; 701/200] 62 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A location reporting method, comprising the steps of:
receiving at a mobile communication terminal, from a computer through a mobile communication network, data comprising a character string representing a request for location information;
identifying, with said mobile communication terminal, a description format for said requested location information;
acquiring at said mobile communication terminal location information indicating a location of said mobile communication terminal;
said mobile communication terminal upon acquisition of said location information, substituting said acquired location information for said character string in accordance with said description format; and
transmitting a resulting data to said computer as up data.